because it's good as hell and i don't want to have to spend time having to rebuild and reconfigure fresh OS installs or risk breakage when I could just use a config file that I know already works
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I don't get the hype. I'm staying with Arch, as Nix seems to be mainly for developers.
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All I year about from the linux community is NixOS and btrfs, neither of which I have any interest in. It almost feels like someone with an agenda is promoting these two with how prevelant they are.
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I will switch as soon as I can get proprietary Nvidia drivers to work on my laptop.
That is the main reason I can't use my laptop with linux. It has a 3060 in it. I work as a dev and need to use 2-3 external displays with my laptop. The driver combined with x or wayland is atrocious, I tried 20 distros and I can't get it to work. The saddest thing is that none of the tech is exotic in any way. It's just HDMIs and AOC 24 inch monitors...
I've been looking at it after numerous times I update Fedora only to have some tool break that I use daily. Then I spend a chunk of the day getting Virtualbox working again so I can do my job (write code for websites).
I haven't made the jump, but it looks very interesting.
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Overlays. Good package management, and lot of stability stuff.
I'm using Void Linux and see no reason to move over to NixOS. The concept seems cool though.
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Hmm, I've never heard of NixOS. Is it suppose to be like blendOS or CurtainOS? A blend of different desktop environments?
It's unlike most other Linux systems I've ever used. The central idea is declarative structures. So your entire operating system, all of the apps and systems services and other custom things you need, are declarative in one place and hopefully easy to activate.
So instead of flatpak install, you add the program to a 'text file' and rebuild your system.
Everything is using the nix package manager which has been around since long before the distro nixos.
That's only the start of the rabbit hole, but if anything sounds interesting i encourage you to check it out!
They don’t know about Debian stable.
I don’t know NixOS. My Linux machine runs Pop_OS and Manjaro.
What are the pros and cons of NixOS ?
They're not but nixos users are REALLY loud, as in, they can't spend a single day without talking about it.
New Arch. Both still worse than Silverblue.
Agreed, Silverblue is great. I would love a declarative system, but Nix just doesn't make it easy with its sprawling documentation and mix of new and old parts. I was trying to follow a guide for Home Manager, but couldn't use it because they were using flakes, I was still on the "old" configuration.nix style.
You can't make all things declarative either. If I can only have things 50% declarative, it kinda defeats the point.
I also still tried to use flatpaks since nix doesn't have sandboxing and is slower on updates, but its font configuration was broken.
Nix overall feels like it's requires a lot of workarounds, moreso than Silverblue.
But hey, at least if I ever want to try it out again, I just need to copy in my configuration.nix and make things work from there.
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